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- 971: Chuck Yeager
- ... there were no ejection seats in those days). For the next 3 weeks it was hell. After he jumped, all he had were 2 stale candy bars and a bottle of water. He saw a French woodcutter and jumped him for his axe. However, instead of getting mad, he got help for Chuck. Within a couple of hours, Chuck had the help of the French Maquis, a French resistance group. They led to the Pyrenees Mountains with one other shot down pilot, where they told them that they were on their own. They hike the mountains for days, thinking they go nowhere. ...
- 972: Catherine The Great
- ... townspeople) also began to organize associations for the promotion of schools and publications. Catherine, who did not want to surrender control over social and cultural policy, viewed these activities with suspicion. The outbreak of the French Revolution (1789) and the publication of Aleksandr Radishchev's Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow (1790), in which the author denounced the evils of serfdom, the immorality of society, and the abuses of government, prompted Catherine ...
- 973: Blaise Pascal
- ... mechanical calculator of the 1940's. This almost assuredly makes Pascal second only to Shickard who manufactured the first in 1624. Pascal faced problems with the design of the calculator due to the design of French currency at the time. There were 12 deniers in a sol, and 20 sols in a livre. Therefore there were 240 deniers in a livre. Hence Pascal had to deal with more technical problems to ... of indivisibles to the problem of the area of any segment of a cycloid and center of gravity of any segment. He also solved the problem of volume and surface area of the solid of revolution formed by rotating x-axis of the cycloid. Pascal also issued a challenge offering two prizes for the solution to these problems. Wren, Laloubere, Leibniz, Huygens, Wallis, Fermat and other various mathematicians were issued the ...
- 974: Woodrow Wilson - Foreign Policy
- ... of the seas and neutral rights. The United States' problems with Britain were serious, but its troubles with Germany were worse. The Germans continued to sink ships with Americans on board. After the Sussex, a French channel streamer was sunk, killing 80 civilians, some American, Wilson declared that if these attacks did not stop "the United States would have no choice but to sever diplomatic relations"5 with Germany. In the ... neutrality. The first was the Zimmerman telegram. This was a message intercepted by Britain proposing a secret alliance between Germany and Mexico. The next event that pushed the US into the war was the Russian Revolution, in which Russia withdrew from the war, this meant the Allies lost a major part of their team, and without the United States, Germany would have surely won. In April 1917 Wilson asked Congress to ...
- 975: Pablo Picasso 2
- ... York City) and also the "Dwarf Dancer". Suddenly, the 20-year-old painter, who now signed himself "Picasso", his mother's maiden name, moved toward a symbolism of great anguish and misery, inspired by the French painter Maurice Denis and the Spanish painters Isidro Nonell Y Monturiol and El Greco. This was his Blue Period, so called because most of these paintings were dominated by various shades of blue. During this ... to depict the subject simultaneously from several points of view." Analytical Cubism: "The arbitrary arrangement and interrelation of contours and fragments of contours without necessary reference to natural objects or their structure." Synthetic Cubism: "A French abstract art movement embracing analytical cubism from about 1906 to 1912 and synthetic cubism from 1913 into the following decade." Blue Period: This style emphasized a variety of Grey-Blues. The figures were mostly long ... Montmartre) nicknamed the "Bateau-Lavoir" because of its flimsy construction. The bateaux-lavoirs were well-known washing sheds for clothes, moored along the Seine river in Paris. 1907-1914 After developing a friendship with the french painter Georges Braque, Picasso begins his Cubist period, which will last until 1914. 1917 At the invitation of the Russian choreographer Diaghilev, Picasso travels to Rome to prepare the sets and costumes for the ...
- 976: Nationalism And Patriotism
- ... or social class rather than to his nation, but nationalism began to replace old loyalties as trade and better means of communication brought men closer together, and as the influence of the church declined. The French Revolution of 1789 strengthened nationalism by uniting the masses of the people in the common cause of winning freedom at home and defending their nation against foreign enemies. As a result of growing nationalism, strong leaders ...
- 977: Mozarts Turkish Side
- ... Many Turks adopted "Western" dress and mannerisms, while the systematic study of the "East," which came to be known as Orientalism, began in Europe. Basing much of its ideas on the Enlightenment and, later, the French Revolution, Orientalism sought to record, classify, and codify the chaos and disorder of the non-European world. Much has been made of the underlying racial and unequal power elements of Orientalism, but that is not our ...
- 978: Louis Pasteur 3
- ... right and the other to the left. This was his first important discovery in crystallography, the phenomenon of optical isomers. Paradoxically it incited him to abandon the field. But it won the acclaim of the French Academy and Britain's Royal Society. Thus Pasteur became famous at the age of 26. Pasteur soon began researching the complexities of bacteriology. The prevalent theory of life at the time was spontaneous generation which ... microbial theory of infection, he got the grudging agreement of the military medical corps to sterilize instruments and steam bandages. As a result, thousands of lives were saved. In 1873, Pasteur was elected to the French Academy of Medicine, a spectacular achievement for a person without a medical degree. Pasteur was now ready to move from the simpler forms of life in the microbial world to the diseases of the higher ... on September 28, 1895, he was buried in a crypt in the Pasteur Institute. In 1940, the conquering Germans came to Paris. A German officer demanded to see the tomb of Pasteur, but the old French guard refused to open the gate. When the German insisted, the guard killed himself. The latter was Joseph Meister, whom Pasteur had saved from hydrophobia. Louis Pasteur made many valuable contributions to the fields ...
- 979: Life Of Fredrick Douglass
- ... Vs. White Civilization. Joseph Brant was born in 1742 and died in 1807 (Barnett et al. 938). Brant, or Thayendanega, was educated at Wheelock s Indian school in Connecticut. He served the British in the French and Indian war and the American Revolution. Being a Mohawk Chief, Brant was subject to much racially motivated discrimination. Discrimination, though most author would like you to believe otherwise, is never one sided. Indian Civilization Vs. White Civilization, looks at the reactions ...
- 980: King Arthur 3
- ... Lancelot, who would eventually betray him by the conducting of an illicit affair with Guinevere, is not mentioned in any part of the Celtic material. He is first found as the central hero in the French Vulgate Cycle, written between 1215 and 1230. Sir Thomas Malory went to the last three parts of this to find the material for his own work; Lancelot which follows the knight's lone adventures, the ... the Mort Artu from which he took the romance of Lancelot and Guinevere and how it brought the downfall of Arthur and Camelot. Tristram also enters Malory's saga from much the same source, another French collection of tales again from around 1230, called the Prose Tristan. From here also comes the romance of Lancelot and Elaine of Corbin, daughter of King Pelles, which resulted in the birth of the perfect knight, Galahad. It was Galahad who was to succeed in what his father had failed in persuing, the mystical Holy Grail. Malory draws again from the French work for the other Elaine, Elaine le Blank, the maid of Astolat, who died for love of Lancelot after finding he was willing to be no more than her friend. Tennyson made her sad ...
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